Using YouTube and a Flip HD for internal communications

The introduction of YouTube’s unlisted option really makes it a useful platform for those  internal communications videos where security through obscurity (you don’t know where the video is unless you know the URL) is enough.

At CIMA we have a number of UK homeworkers and staff in global offices who can sometimes miss out on HQ’s successes (and vice-versa). This video was one of our first attempts to use a Flip Mino HD camera to go behind the scenes at an event, there’s clearly work to do to get better, but I think the Flip has huge potential as an internal comms tool.

I filmed the main event on our Sony HVR-A1E camera (purchased with the aid of the excellent and knowledgable sales team at Calumet), and you can see those videos on my video page.

The Flip HD performance is  much stronger in conditions where there is strong lighting, one of our exec directors took it out to Vietnam with him, and the picture quality is superb:

One problem we’ve found with the included simple editing software is that it has no option other than to export your video to the My Documents folder on Windows. When you use My Docs locations which are based on network drives, as we do, the Flip software can become very temperemental about exporting.